Improvement in manufacturing plug-tobacco



v c. W oR-LEY.

MANUFACTURING PLUG TOBACCO.

No. 181.512. Emma; Aug. 22. me.

ATTEST: INVEN TOR.

NJHERS, PNOTU-LITMOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C ble.

Inna-"STATES I PATENT i OFFICE.

I CHRISTIAN WORLEY, on ST. LoUI-S,ZMIsSoUnI, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF L HIS RIGHT TO HENRY MOOABE, OF SAME PLACE. I v

IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING PLUG-TOBACCO. I

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,512, dated August 22, 1876; application filed January 22, 1876.

To all whom ct may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN WORLEY,

of St. Louis','in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Mode of Finishing Plug-Tobacco, of which the following is a specification: I

The common way to proceed in finishing plug-tobacco is to press the bunches into plugs having the formseen in the retail stores. The plugs are next removed from the molds in which they are pressed, and packed in boxes, and theboxes placed in a room, where the tobacco is sweated and cured. The plugs are afterward taken from the boxes, and subjected to'a Second press ing before they are packed in the boxes for sa e.

My improved mode consists in finishing tobacco by placing the plugs in a box in alternate layers with thin metal plates, applying extreme pressure thereto, and subjecting the plugs to dry heat for several hours while they are tightly compressed between the plates, which are in contact with the' The drawing is a perspective view of my finisher filled with tobacco-plugs,- one' side being removed to Show the interior. I

The finisher has a top, A, and bottom B. Of its four sides, 0 D E F, the side G is made removable, for convenience in' packing and unpacking. The top is also remova- The Sides D F are secured to the bottom-by Screws G, which extend through the bottom from side to side. Surrounding the box upon three sides are horizontal straps H H H, ending at the front side 0 in screws h,

which pass through the eyes of the strap-bars I I I, by which the front side 0 is held in place by nuts screwing on the ends h. J are stay-bolts, running from side to side across the finisher above the top A. The top A conanother course of tobacco, and so on, the tobacco and plates alternating to the top of the finisher.

The side 0 and top A are then put inplace, and the finisher, with its center, subjected to .extreme pressure, and then placed in a room containing very dry air, heated to, say,

140 Fahrenheit, and retained, at that temperature for, say, eight hours, at the end of which time it will be found 'sufficiently cured, and may be at once removed from the finish-' er, and packedin the boxes or caddies in which it is sold. I

I consider it better, however, to allow the tobacco to cool in the finisher. case the plugs will be found to have a smooth and vhard surface, better, indeed, than can be had by the old and tedious process, where the plugs are subjected to two distinct presslngs.

By this process I am enabled to make use of wrappers costing not more than half the price of those used before my invention. I

I'am aware that there is not any novelty in, first,'tl1e simple finishing of. tobaccoiby placing it ina heated room and, secondly, the

simple pressing of tobacco between metallic plates, and therefore I do not claim this 'distinct heating and pressing'of tobacco broadly but What I do claim as new and of my invention, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, 1s 4 Thelmode of finishing tobacco, substan- In either tially as deseribed, consisting nf placing the plugs in a box in alternate layerslw'ith thin metal plates, applying extreme pressure thereto, and subjecting the plugs to dry heat of about 140 Fahrenheit for several hours while they are tightly compressed between the plates, which are in contact with;

the bread sides of the plugsgt nd finally removing th e butt, and leaving the cententetherei t l y -J we 1 1 l 1 i CHRISTIAN WORLEY.

Witnesses SAML. KNIGHT,

.ROBERT BURNS, 

